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I'm a huge fan of CDs for this reason. I know I'm getting perfect, uncompressed digital audio.

Ah, but you don't know! On Beck's Odelay Deluxe Edition release, for example, there are at least two tracks that came from a lossy source.

I don't think it's something that happens often. But through some combination of factors it has happened before, and probably happens more often than people might be aware.

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True. There's also issues with volume and with analog to digital conversions. But even still, almost any cd is better than it's analog equivalent in just about every measure.

Certainly true. Even some of the earliest CD masters are still very good, relatively. By most standards it took a fairly short amount of time for CD audio to reach a high standard for quality (loudness wars aside).

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